Proxmox Mail Gateway is a fantastic spam filtering solution. The trouble with relaying mail from a single IP address is that services like Gmail and Yahoo will quite quickly start…
Postfix IP rotation for Proxmox Mail Gateway
Deny direct access to php files
If you have a contact form or any other form that communicates with a php file in order to send you an email etc, but you don't want that php…
Train Proxmox Mail Gateway SpamAssassin from cPanel Spam
Proxmox Mail Gateway (PMG) is a great solution for filtering incoming and outgoing mail for spam. By default SpamAssassin in is not trained with what emails should be considered spam…
Find OSD serial in Ceph Proxmox
The identification of an OSD / Disk serial number in Ceph is especially important in the event of disk failure. This can be achieved with a couple of commands: ceph-volume…
Identify spamming accounts cPanel/DirectAdmin Exim
An webhost server admin knows the frustrations of spamming accounts, the trouble is putting together a toolkit to identify spamming accounts. I'll write a series of posts on how to…
Remove files/directories starting with certain string
In Linux if you want to remove all files and folders starting with the string "2020" you can run the following command: rm -rf 2020*
Resize/increase Proxmox Backup datastore disk
Suppose you created a datastore of 5TB in the new Proxmox Backup and wish to increase this, the process isn't quite as simple as in Proxmox VE. If you're running…
Enable Amazon S3 interface for Ceph inside Proxmox
Enabling Ceph in Proxmox is a fantastic way to provide scalable and redundant storage for your VMs. Enabling the Amazon S3 interface for Ceph opens your storage up to third…
Find text in files across Linux machine
To find the word "fishpaste" in all files contained in the root directory / run the following command in the terminal: grep -Rw / -e 'fishpaste'
Proxmox node hangs – detected Hardware Unit Hang
We have had two instances of one of our Proxmox nodes hanging and upon insepecting /var/log/syslog we observed the following error before the crashes: enp0s31f6: Detected Hardware Unit Hang proxmox…
